However, the popular TV host has said that there's "no jealousy" between her and mother-of-two Mel.

"It is not 'I want what you have', it is not 'I'm jealous', it is the letting go and the profound love as you do it," she told comedienne Dawn French while promoting her memoirs 'Spectacles' in London on Sunday.

"She had a child and it was at a time when I couldn't. And I watched her and now she is an amazing mother with amazing kids and it's so frightening really."